Kids craft project: Rockin' shamrocks for St Patrick's Day

03 Mar 2022

Plan an outdoor treasure hunt with the kids to help them discover a little luck of the Irish including their own pot of gold for St Patrick’s Day.

You will need:

• Stones, flat river rocks are ideal
• Resene Quick Dry
• Paintbrush
• Plastic plant pot
• Resene testpots in your choice of colours. Fleur used Resene Chetwode Blue, Resene Hopskotch, Resene Hot Toddy, Resene Green House, Resene Tree Frog, Resene Apache and Resene FX Metallic Gold Dust

Step 1: Start by selecting stones that are of similar size and shape.  Paint the top of them with one coat of Resene Quick Dry. 

Step 2: Once the primer is dry, paint two stones each with two coats of your favourite Resene colours. Fleur used Resene Chetwode Blue, Resene Hot Toddy and Resene Hopskotch.  Allow the first coat to dry before applying the second coat. 

Step 3: Once the paint is dry, use a thin paintbrush to paint on the outline of a clover with your favourite green. Fleur used Resene Green House. 

Step 4: Next, fill in the bottom half of each leaf with more Resene Green House. 

Step 5: Finish by painting in the top half of each leaf in a brighter green, Fleur used Resene Tree Frog.

Step 6: For the pot of gold, take a plastic plant pot and give it a quick sand with a medium grit sandpaper and apply one coat of Resene Quick Dry.  Once the primer is dry, apply one coat of Resene Apache, and once this is dry, apply two coats of Resene Gold Dust. 

Step 7: Fill the pot with chocolate money or other gold coloured treats, hide it in the garden and leave a trail of clover stones for your young lucky gold hunters to follow. Fleur used Resene Chetwode Blue, Resene Hopskotch, Resene Hot Toddy, Resene Green House, Resene Tree Frog, Resene Apache and Resene FX Metallic Gold Dust.

project and images Fleur Thorpe

Published: 03 Mar 2022